The annual EurObserv’ER report ‘The State of Renewable Energies in Europe’ (edition 2015) has been released today. The report contains detailed statistics on the share of renewable energy from different sources in the EU, as well as estimates on the employment and the turnover generated by RES, an assessment of the investment climate in the European Union, and examples of innovative financing schemes.
In 2014 the overall renewable energy share of gross final energy consumption amounted to 15.9% compared to 15.0% in 2013. Renewable electricity output for 2014 has been estimated at 895 TWh (+4.6% compared to 2013), resulting in a renewable electricity share of 28.1%. In EU 28 renewable energy accounted for 1.11 million direct and indirect jobs, around 44,000 jobs less than in 2013. Solid biomass and biofuels provided almost half of the jobs (0.31 and 0.11 respectively), while wind power ranks first with 314,000 jobs. The whole sector generated a turnover of 142 billion Euro in with the highest turnover in 2013 attributed to wind power (48 billion euro), solid biomass (36 billion euro) and photovoltaic (16 billion euro).
